I feel like my music has a reputation for being pretty serious or whatnot, but I like having fun.
I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums.
I believe there's more than this - that maybe, when we die, our brains conjure up some kind of shutdown experience, and that's what people try to sum up as the afterlife.
I don't sit around listening to beats all day. There's so many producers, and so much of it is derivative.
It's tough when you're an artist because you get to go around the world and make a lot of friends, but guess what? One day, all these people that you love are going to die, from DJ Mehdi to DJ Dusk to J Dilla to Austin Peralta to DJ Rashad.
I love my Fender Rhodes. It's been a part of my family since that keyboard came out, and I've had it reworked so that it's in the best condition it's actually ever been in. That is my baby.
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which doesn't feel like L.A. It's a bit different. It's still L.A. County, but it's not the same, it's not the kind of place where they embrace you for being a weirdo. You were just left alone with your Nintendo, and that was my life.
Whenever it gets a little cold in L.A., it gives me an excuse to light my fireplace. You could stare at that joint for, like, a cool two hours. It's entrancing.
I get homesick driving to the grocery store.
I actually really liked the music to the 'Friday the 13th' Nintendo game. I still listen to it all the time. I sampled it in a couple records, too. It's hypnotic and dark but also really pretty.
For me, being 10 years old and seeing 'Jurassic Park' for the first time blew my mind. I want music to feel like that.
All of the Flying Lotus records are exploring similar themes: These questions in my mind about what's next and what's beyond.
I wish I could write music notation. Even if I couldn't play it, I wish I could just write it.
Childish Gambino - him and I are the same age, and I really like him.
I took to the synthesizer. My cousin had some synthesizers, and I'd always make stuff on those things.
Kendrick is a true genius artist.
